I forgot your cinematic obligations, Barry. In Buddist meditaton
practice - when it is going good - the narrator (the inside chatter
box) dies, while a whole universe opens, unfolds - a narration without
a narrator. (If George Bush only had such a 'practice.' Or
McCain.Or.)
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
--- On Tue, 9/9/08, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
From: Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: George Eliot meets John Cage: Barry Alpert's Snapshot
To: [log in to unmask]
Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2008, 10:10 AM
Well I like the off rhyme, Stephen, but I'm being faithful to my source in
keeping
"vertigo". Not to mention the invocation of Hitchcock's film,
which had as strong an
impact (in its own way) on me when I saw it upon its release as Cage's
"Silence" did
years later.
Barry
On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 09:14:09 -0700, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>If I may either talk or think, Barry, I like this.Tho, in thinking about
it,
> I would end it:
>
> Son of pride
> the narrator dies.
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
>
>Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
GEORGE ELIOT & JOHN CAGE TALK SHOP IN HEAVEN
>
>
>Key figure in thinking on
>where you put
>I.
>
>Enter the only language
>in which you cannot say,
>“Humor is a rubber sword.”
>
>I remember, rather timidly,
>when one green star,
>reeling, proclaimed:
>
>“What do we live for,
>if it is not silence?”
>Other than that, we sit.
>
>Son of pride,
>the narrator dies of vertigo.
>
>
>Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 9-8-08 (9:36 AM)
>
>
>On Monday September 8 at 2:52 PM Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>“...If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it
>would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and
>we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.” George
Eliot (Source?)
>
>
>
>I suspect John Cage would have loved this quote. I certainly do. As I
suspect some other
>'listeners' here, too.
>
>
>
>It was quoted by Prof. Charles Liu in his honors class at CUNY as reported
in a story in
>today's NY Times.
>
>
>
>Stephen V
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